Flora of North America species comparison

(1–)2–5, gray-green, tomentose.

pale gray, glabrous.

persistent, basal rosettes persistent, gray-green to white;

blades ovate, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, 2–3-pinnately or -ternately lobed, lobes linear to narrowly oblong, apices acute, faces moderately to densely sericeous.

deciduous, gray-green;

blades broadly cuneate, 1.5–4 × 0.5–2 cm, deeply 3-lobed (lobes 1–1.4 mm wide, acute; cauline leaves smaller, mostly 3-lobed).

hemispheric, 3–4 × 3.5–4 mm.

globose or turbinate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm.

pistillate 8–10; functionally staminate 15–30;

corollas (or lobes) yellow-orange or deep red, 2.2–3.5.

3–11;

corollas 2–2.5 mm, glandular (style branches included).

(obscurely scarious) densely tomentose-villous.

broadly lanceolate (margins scarious, obscured by indument), canescent.

(proximal sessile, distal pedunculate) in (leafy) spiciform arrays 4–9(–12) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

in paniculiform or spiciform arrays (5–)8–15(–35) × (0.5–)1–5 cm.

oblong-lanceoloid, somewhat compressed, 0.4–1 mm, faintly nerved, glabrous.

(columnar, unequally ribbed) 1.8–2.3 mm, glabrous or resinous.